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Title:	Factors Influencing Choice of Higher Education: Information on Colleges as Institutions, 1965
Keywords:	ADVANCED LEVEL EXAMINATIONS ATTITUDES HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS CURRICULUM EDUCATIONAL ADMISSION EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION FOREIGN STUDENTS GENDER HIGHER EDUCATION ORDINARY LEVEL EXAMINATIONS PART-TIME COURSES PUBLICATIONS STUDENTS UNIVERSITIES VOCATIONAL EDUCATION CAREERS GUIDANCE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT 1965 England and Wales
Description:	<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors which influence young people in their demand for higher education in its various forms - at universities, colleges of education (teacher training colleges), polytechnics and colleges of further education. Six of these eight surveys are the main study which was carried out on (a) the schools and the fifth-formers and the sixth-formers in them, and (b) the colleges of further education and their home students studying `A' level subjects full-time.</p><p><br> The material from the young people includes that given by them at two stages, first from the main survey which took place before they sat GCE examinations and before the results of higher education applications were available and secondly, from the follow-up survey after the results of the GCE examinations were known and the young people already embarked on courses the following session. For the fifth and sixth-form surveys (67001, 67002 and 68005) there is also incorporated the form teachers' broad assessment of ability (three categories) examination prospects and higher education and career aspirations. For the schools the main survey was carried out in the Spring term 1967 with the follow-up in the autumn. The equivalent dates in the colleges of further education were May 1967 and January 1968.</p><p><br> (The remaining two surveys are subsidiary to the project; 66023 is the pilot stage of the main survey part of 68004, i.e. home students studying `A' levels full-time in the further education colleges, whilst 67005 (fifth-formers in the fast stream in schools) comprises a sub-set of material from the main fifth-form survey for an enlarged sample of those pupils in schools with fast streams).</p><p><br> The six surveys in the main study are interlinked with information from the school or college complementing that from the pupil or student. In addition there is standardisation - as far as was practicable - between sections of the questionnaire used for the fifth-formers, lower and upper sixth-formers and students in further education (e.g. general background). The contents of the questionnaire for the upper sixth-formers and further education students corresponded particularly closely. Copies of all reports on the surveys are in the Library of the Royal Statistical Society. Mainly they deal with specific aspects of the data e.g. 'Subject commitments and the demand for higher education', G. A. Barnard and M. D. McCreath (1970) <span style="font-style: italic;">Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General)</span> 133 (3) 358 - 408, 'Report of the surveys of full-time 'A' level students (home) in colleges of further education', by M. D. McCreath (1970). All the material which is available is listed in the most recent report written in 1972, <span style="font-style: italic;">Factors influencing choice of higher education: surveys carried out by Margaret D McCreath under the direction of Professor G A Barnard, Department of Mathematics, University of Essex</span>. This 1972 report includes data from both the school and further education surveys. The extensive tables are based on the following variables: social class, expectations about leaving school and reasons for doing so, source of the most useful discussion on what to do after school, family experience of higher education, `O' and `A' level attempts and passes, knowledge of higher education entry requirements and with whom these were discussed, as well as intended and actual destinations in higher education.<br> The technical note on the sample design by Judith Doherty was published in 1970 as Appendix 1 of Volume 1 of the Schools Council Sixth-Form Survey, <span style="font-style: italic;">Sixth-Form Pupils and Teachers</span>. Details of the response rates are given in the 1972 report mentioned above.</p> <br> <B>Main Topics</B>:<BR> <p>This survey covered advice on careers and education after 'A' level: whether there is a formal system for the dissemination of such advice, and whether this was instigated to meet a demand from students. A record was made of the literature held on careers and higher education establishments and how this was made available. Information gathered included: where the majority of students go - or expect to go - after 'A' levels (according to sex and subject cohort); how and when they are advised by the college about closing dates for courses beyond 'A' level; advice students seem to need on which university course to include on the UCCA form; whether the Youth Employment Officer or Careers Advisory Officer is the main official source of advice for students; whether the principal or representative of any college department with full-time 'A' level students has been invited to a university conference of headmasters and headmistresses.<br> General information includes: position of respondent on college staff; official classification of college by type; whether college receives any part of its fund from a source other than the LEA; whether there has been or is expected to be a change in the status of the college and whether this will affect the full-time 'A' level courses; if so, how. </p><p>Data were also collected on subjects offered at 'A' level in which a substantial amount of work beyond 'A' level is done at the college. 'A' level courses offered by the college because of special features in the neighbourhood (e.g. specialized industry), whether there is liaison with local schools in the sort of subjects offered at 'A' level, the catchment area for full-time 'A' level students, the proportion of overseas students on courses, students taking 'A' levels as part of or in addition to vocational courses (5 categories), whether any are taking more than one 'A' level, if so, whether these students are excluded from the DES November returns. Also included was a statement of the college's definition of a full-time `A' level student as for the DES return (i.e. demarcation between full and part-time status). A record is made of how long 'A' level courses have been offered (by subject cohort), restrictions placed on full time 'A' level students taking the exam as college candidates (e.g. may attempt in summer only etc.), whether 'A' level students regularly take 'O' levels en passant to 'A' levels, how the college views CSE passes as entrance qualifications to its 'A' level courses. A record is made of special 'O' level passes deemed necessary to attend an 'A' level course, and any flexibility of requirements that is made for mature and overseas students.<br> Basic data concerning student numbers and achievements obtained from college records is also included.<br></p><br>
URI:	https://t2-4.bsc.es/jspui/handle/123456789/63363
Other Identifiers:	67003 10.5255/UKDA-SN-67003-1 http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-67003-1
Appears in Collections:	Cessda

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